Who is your Goliath? What is it in your life that looks like it is impossible to defeat, what intimidates you morning and night? 40 mornings and 40 evenings he has come out to taunt. He mocked Israel, and he mocked God

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Ephesians 6:12

What can we learn from David & Goliath that will help us fight our impossible battles?

Seeing with new eyesThe Men had been listening to this giant for 40 mornings and 40 evenings – and quaking in their boots. David comes along on morning 41 carrying cheese, bread and grain for his brothers. He hears the battle cry, leaves the supplies with the quarter-master and runs to the battle lines to see his brothers – “Hi, how are ya?”That’s when Goliath shows up. The Israelite Army is terrified, but David is horrified – “how can you let this guy defy God’s people and God himself! What’s the king offering to the man who rids the world of this disgrace?”

The army saw the problem – this guy is too huge to defeatDavid saw a different problem – this guy is evil and insultingDavid saw the solution – take this guy out!

Often times we think that the biggest problem surrounding our Goliaths is that there is no solution. We need to ask God to help us see with new eyes and to see the problem for what it is. If your Goliath is a system that seems unchangeable, we need to take our eyes off the unchangeableness and remind ourselves of the evil of the system that God has called us to change.We need to stop thinking about how hard it is to break an addiction and think about how the addiction is ruining our lives, and the lives of the people around us, how it ruins our relationships with people and with God!

Seeing with God’s eyesDavid was able to be offended more by Goliath’s insults and blasphemy than he was terrified by his size because he saw Goliath not compared to another man, but compared to God. Compared with God, Goliath was not a giant, he was a speck of dust!Compared with God cancer is not “the big “C”: Jesus is the big “C”!There is no system bigger than GodThere is no addiction bigger than GodThere is no (insert your Goliath) bigger than God!